> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing > > On 08/16/2014 06:14 AM, Mike Stayton wrote: > > and also > > > > http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml > > > > Mike Stayton > > > > > > > An interesting development, but if technology ever progresses to the point > where we remotely approach > the cognitive power of the human brain we would need to exercise EXTREME > caution, as humans can > "learn" and be certain of so many things that simply aren't true including > mutually impossible > "facts", be blind to their own ignorance, come to irrational, destructive > conclusions, and have mental > breakdowns. There is a reason that the computers that we rely on have been > designed around > deterministic architectures. Science fiction has repeatedly dealt with the > dangers of placing > cognitive machines in control. I particularly remember one original Star > Trek episode ("The Ultimate > Computer") where such a cognitive computer (M-5) went berserk because its > designer patterned its > memory engrams on his own and he himself turned out to be mentally unstable.
A similar "virus" affected the "HAL 9000" computer in Clarke's _2001: A Space Odyssey_. > Just image the extreme damage potential of an ultra-fast, ultra-efficient > cognitive machine in control > of some critical process or decisions if it were patterned on the memory > engrams of a Sarah Palin. ... or Adolf Hitler, or Josef Stalin, or Barack Obama, or Isaac Newton, or Albert Einstein, or Thomas Jefferson, or Bobby Fischer, or <pick your poison>. -jc- ********************************************************************** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
